diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a9ce59801..2297b936c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ linux (4.17~rc3-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Fix building only versioned tools packages
   * Reclassify lockdep packages as unversioned tools
 
+  [ Jason Duerstock ]
+  * [ia64] add compress-modules to depends (fixes FTBFS)
+
  -- Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>  Wed, 02 May 2018 12:59:01 +0100
 
 linux (4.17~rc3-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
diff --git a/debian/installer/ia64/modules/ia64/compress-modules b/debian/installer/ia64/modules/ia64/compress-modules
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..804616619
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/installer/ia64/modules/ia64/compress-modules
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include <compress-modules>